The third railway at Temple Meads was the Bristol and Gloucester Railway which opened on 8 July 1844 but was taken over by the Midland Railway ( MR ) on 1 July 1845.

In 1844, the broad-gauge Bristol and Gloucester Railway had opened, but Gloucester was already served by the standard-gauge lines of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.

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From 1837 to 1844 he was Assistant Curator in the Bristol Museum, a post he relinquished to join the staff of the British Geological Survey in London.

In 1836 and later years there were proposals for a standard gauge extension to Exeter and Plymouth, but the Bristol & Exeter Railway, a broad gauge company, was successful in reaching Exeter first on 1 May 1844.

It was the opening of the railway station in 1844, as part of Bristol and Gloucester Railway, that established Yate, with Station Road becoming the central thoroughfare.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway opened a station, known as " Tiverton Road " on 1 May 1844.

Lord William George Henry Somerset ( 2 September 1784 – 14 January 1861 ), Prebendary of Bristol, who was married twice ; on 29 June 1813 to Elizabeth Molyneux ( d. 1843 ), daughter of Lt .- Gen. Sir Thomas Molyneux, 5th Baronet, with whom he had one son, and in 1844 to Frances Westby Brady ( d. 31 August 1854 ), with whom he had no issue

The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Taunton in 1842 and Exeter in 1844.

There were many notable failures to connect Exeter and the South West to the national canal and rail networks: The Grand Western Canal linking Exeter to Bristol ( 1796 ) was never completed ; The Bristol & Exeter Railway link to the canal basin was postponed in 1832 and 1844 ; The South Devon Railway ran services to the canal from 1867, but by this time the canal was too small to attract the sizeable ocean-going vessels and the canal was taken over by its creditors for sixteen years.

Railways arrived in the area in 1841, with the opening of part of the Bristol and Exeter Railway on 14 June, which eventually reached Exeter in 1844.

* Royal West of England Academy or RWA, an institution ( founded 1844 ) based in Bristol, England, UK

Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy supplied six 2-2-2 locomotives to the Bristol and Gloucester Railway in 1844, and fourteen to the Great Southern and Western Railway in Ireland in 1848, ( the last of these has been preserved at Cork Kent railway station.

The station was opened on 1 May 1844 by the Bristol and Exeter Railway ( B & ER ).

The station was originally built as the terminus of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1840, but the arrival of the ( broad gauge ) Bristol and Gloucester Railway and Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway in 1844, and then conversion to a through station for the South Wales Railway in 1851 resulted in a very complex layout.

The final piece of the LSWR ’ s network in Exeter was opened on 1 February 1862 when a steep line descended from the west end of Queen Street station to reach the Bristol and Exeter Railway's station at which had been opened in 1844.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway opened on 1 May 1844 but it ran south of Tiverton, so a station known as " Tiverton Road " was opened to serve the town.

The parish, which lies at the western end of the Blackdown Hills, includes the hamlets of Bagley Green, Sampford Moor, White Ball and Beam Bridge where a temporary terminus of the Bristol and Exeter Railway was established in 1843 until the line was completed to Exeter in 1844.

Charfield station opened with the Bristol and Gloucester line in 1844 and had substantial Brunel designed buildings on both platforms.

She exhibited five miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1807, and founded the Bristol Fine Arts Academy in 1844 with a substantial gift.

The Bristol and Gloucester Railway opened in 1844 between Bristol and Gloucester, meeting the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.

In 1844 the Bristol and Gloucester merged with Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to form the short-lived Birmingham and Bristol Railway, becoming a pawn in railway politics between the Midland Railway and the Great Western Railway.

In August 1844 at a camp-meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, everything changed when Samuel S. Snow presented a message of earth-shattering proportions — what became known as the “ seventh-month ” message or the “ true midnight cry .” In a complex discussion based on scriptural typology, Snow presented his conclusion ( still based on the 2300 day prophecy in ), that Christ would return on, “ the tenth day of the seventh month of the present year, 1844 .” Again using the calendar of the Karaite Jews, this date was determined to be October 22, 1844.

He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school from 1844 and the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852, before studying theology at Exeter College, Oxford.

In August 1844 at a camp meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented his own interpretation, which became known as the " seventh-month message " or the " true midnight cry ".

In August 1844 at a camp-meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented a message that became known as the " seventh-month " message or the " true midnight cry.

The college was founded in London in 1844 with a temporary home in the Exeter Hall before moving to permanent premises in Queen's Square, London in 1859.

Exeter in 1844.

* 1844 – 54: Dublin and Kingstown Railway's Dalkey Atmospheric Railway between Kingstown ( Dún Laoghaire ) and Dalkey, Ireland ()

The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861.

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway | Maidenhead Railway Bridge as J. M. W. Turner | Turner saw it in 1844

Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway painted ( 1844 )

* 1844 – Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London

This accident prompted Parliament to pass the 1844 Railway Regulation Act requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers.

For the 19th-century company see East Lancashire Railway 1844 – 1859

On the strength of this, the L & M management did purchase the locomotive, subsequently reselling it at a loss to the Bolton & Leigh Railway where it worked until 1844.

The Woodhead Line, which followed the river from Hadfield to the Woodhead Tunnel portal, was an important cross-Pennine route built in 1844 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway.

The Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway Company was formed in 19 July 1844 and the railway was connected to Stalybridge on 5 October 1846.

In 1844 the London and Birmingham Railway opened the Coventry to Leamington Line, including Kenilworth railway station.

When these three companies merged to form the Midland Railway on 10 May 1844, the Midland did not have its own route to London, and relied upon a junction at Rugby with the London and Birmingham's line ( which became part of the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1846 ) to London Euston for access to the capital.

The Midland Railway ( MR ) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

The Midland Railway Consolidation Act was passed in 1844 authorising the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.

The Leeds and Bradford Railway had been approved in 1844.